Great article by Bill Carter in The New York Times on indomitable Jay Leno. As Carter points out, the late show host critics love to dismiss is as dominant as ever in the ratings a month after he and David Letterman returned to the air–Letterman with his writers, Leno without. How has he done it?
One of the strangest tales in Truth and Rumors: The Reality Behind TV’s Most Famous Myths is the Charles Manson story. Did the serial killer actually audition to become one of The Monkees? That’s one of the rumors I’ll be discussing tomorrow at 1 p.m. on CBC Radio One’s Q with Jian Ghomeshi (94.1 on
First off, to all those people who were mislead by my Super Bowl prediction, I’m sorry. Giants won by three points, not four as I predicted. I’ll try harder next year.Now, a few thoughts on the broadcast.I know The Super Bowl is considered the biggest promotional platform in television today. Certainly Fox wasn’t shy about
Ask any Canadian NFL fan: signal substitution sucks, especially at Super Bowl time. With the game on CTV, get ready to watch endless appearances of those two F-ing Bell Canada cell phone beavers instead of the most talked about U.S. ads of the year.Thanks to YouTube, however, you can watch one U.S. ad Canadians can’t
One of the shows trailing badly in the poll to the left may be the first on the list to win the real prize. Looks like Sophie is going Stateside.According to this article in The Hollywood Reporter, ABC Family is negotiating with CBC to pick up 13 episodes of Sophie, the new Wednesday night sitcom
It’s a great day in America as Craig Ferguson gets his papers. The late night talk show host has been talking for months (or, at least, ever since his show went back on the air thanks to that interim WGA deal) about how he has applied for American citizenship. He took the test a few
Well, that didn’t take long. Effective immediately, CBC is switching MVP (featuring Kristin Booth, above) from Friday to Tuesday, sending jPod to TV’s darkest night. Both shows were just launched earlier this month. In a terse press release, the network announced that, “Beginning February 5, viewers can watch CBC Television’s sizzling new dramatic series MVP,
Somebody explain to me this man-love thing David Letterman seems to have for Dr. Phil McGraw. The beefy Texan was a guest on CBS’s Late Show with David Letterman last night where he was allowed to publicy wash off the stink from that Britney Spears fiasco. Letterman has Dr. Phil on all the time, anointing